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1 online resource (260 pages) |
| Contents |
I grew up -- Eating the apple -- Prayer -- A withered old woman -- The tomb. I didn't cry at my first funeral ; The pit ; Wedding-night pajamas ; Evening of the third day ; The picture ; The republic of big brother ; My wedding dress ; Starving at the dinner table ; Tom and Jerry ; A ripe banana ; A lone sheep ; The black screen on the white horse ; Eclipse ; The fog ; My birthday present ; The amusement park ; The rule and the proof ; Traveling without a Mahram ; a poet in secret ; I'll repent when the time is right ; The gentleman ; The prophet said ; You talk funny ; My adoptive mother ; The sea is not for me ; Night vigil ; Wine ; Titanic ; A bad apple ; Your poet ; The slap of dreams -- Inbox. A clarification ; A loaf of bread and a wooden table ; Adam and Eve ; "Gladly I race to my death" ; In the beginning was the word ; "If the boy falls in love?" ; Real conversation, virtual world ; A small mistake ; Things shall remain between us ; The poem still in my mouth -- Shoes -- Street cat -- This must be what happened -- Yellow Post-It -- First phone call -- Because my graves are many -- Second phone call -- Hayat -- Third phone call -- Partner in crime -- Fourth phone call -- Knives flying -- Carefully folded socks -- Andalusian verse -- Hayat's life -- Fifth phone call -- Life 101 -- "I saw nothing but beauty" -- This poet of yours -- Failure to comply -- That memory |
| Summary |
"Fatima loves poetry and wants to study French literature--both of which are anathema to her strict and conservative much older brother, Saqr. While living under his roof, Fatima's hopes and dreams are scrutinized, mocked, and slowly crushed as she is forced into his narrow vision of the right path. Then Fatima meets Isam, a poet like her; they email love letters to each other and meet in secret. Saqr, however, has other ideas: she is married off to Faris, a complete stranger. He is not the cruel tyrant her brother was, but still she did not choose him. Will she escape her past to live the life of love and poetry she craves?"--Amazon.com |
| Notes |
Minḥat al-Tarjamah = Tranlation Grant / Ṣandūq Minḥat al-Shāriqah lil-Tarjamah = Sharjah Translation Grant Fund |
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منحة الترجمة = Tranlation Grant / صندوق منحة الشارقة للترجمة = Sharjah Translation Grant Fund |
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"First published in Arabic in 2013 as Kabirtu wa nasaytu an ansa by Arab Scientific Publishers Inc."--Title page verso |
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Translated from the Arabic |
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Print version record |
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Young women -- Kuwait -- Fiction
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Women poets -- Fiction
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Arranged marriage -- Kuwait -- Fiction
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Arabic fiction -- 21st century
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Electronic books.
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e-books.
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18.74 modern Arabic literature.
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FICTION -- Contemporary Women.
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Arabic fiction
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Arranged marriage
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Women poets
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Young women
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Kuwait
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| Genre/Form |
Social problem fiction
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Romance fiction
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Fiction
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Social problem fiction.
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Romance fiction.
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Henjum, Michele, translator
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| ISBN |
9781617979279 |
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1617979279 |
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9781617979262 |
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1617979260 |
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